title: [The contribution of plant physiology to understanding the nature of senescence and oncogenesis].
abstract: It is suggested to consider a destructive effect on parenchymal tissue of propagative connective-tissue cells in senescence and tumor cells in oncogenesis as a particular case of the apical dominance, the process described for plants.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Makrushin
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000473:pathology*; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena